Motivations to adopt green ICT: A tale of two organizations

Snehasish Banerjee; Tan Yu Sing; Anisur Reza Chowdhury; Haris Anwar

doi:10.4018/jgc.2013070101

Motivations to adopt green ICT: A tale of two organizations

Snehasish Banerjee, Tan Yu Sing, Anisur Reza Chowdhury, Haris Anwar

The York Management School

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Abstract

Though green information and communication technology (ICT) is gradually becoming a buzzword, not much scholarly attention has delved into the motivations that can entice organizations to adopt it. To address this issue, this paper serves a three-fold purpose. First, it investigates the motivations for adopting green ICT from organizations’ perspectives. Second, it explores cases of two organizations (Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft Corporation) known for their green ICT strategies and unearths the extent to which such motivations are applicable to them. Third, through the two cases, the paper gives valuable insights to non-green organizations into the potential benefits of green ICT. The paper proposes a three-tier theoretical framework consisting of management, technological, marketing, financial and regulatory motivations, and acts as an eye-opener for non-green organizations by suggesting that it is their inability to identify these motivations that prevent them from adopting green ICT.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Green Computing
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/jgc.2013070101
Publication status	Published - 2013

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